Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges focus on an alleged attempt to cover up various aspects of a secret Reagan Administration operation to aid the Nicaraguan rebels...
...would be well rewarded if it would continue to harbor contra camps on its territory and funnel military supplies to the rebels. Bush visited Tegucigalpa on March 16, 1985. According to the evidence, he told Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the U.S. would carry out a promise from Reagan to increase and expedite military and economic aid in return for this help...
According to the document, Reagan had urged the Hondurans to continue helping the contras in a letter to Suazo one month before Bush's visit. The U.S. "conditions" for giving some $110 million in aid were considered so sensitive that a secret emissary was sent to brief the Honduran President orally on them. The quid pro quo had been approved that same month at a meeting of a special interagency crisis-planning group headed by Bush, although it was not clear whether he led this key meeting. At the time, the Boland amendment was in effect, banning lethal help...
...does a President stay up while going down? "This low-key, no-pressure, no-sweat President has engendered more response than Ronald Reagan," says political analyst Horace Busby, once an aide to Lyndon Johnson. "The American people have much less need for Washington than Washington wants to believe...
...Administration news only about half the time, compared with 72% in the first days. "So far," says Lichter, "the 'just folks' presidency is working. Bush gets less press but better press. Bush is far more visible to the press than he is to the public, just the opposite of Reagan, who was far more visible to the people than to the press...